LLVM-LIB(1)

💖 LLVM-LIB(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the LLVM manual, this one's about llvm-lib and it's genuinely such a useful little tool, come sit with me 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

llvm-lib — the LLVM lib.exe compatible library tool 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

llvm-lib [/libpath:<path>] [/out:<output>] [/llvmlibthin] [/ignore]
[/machine] [/nologo] [files...]

like. look at her. so simple. so powerful. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole vibe of llvm-lib is that it's meant to be a lib.exe compatible tool — like, drop-in, same energy, no drama. if you want the general rundown of what that means, the original docs point you at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7ykb2k5f and honestly go read it, iykyk.

but wait — llvm-lib also has its own extensions, and these are the parts that make her extra special ✨:

• Bitcode files in symbol tables. not me being obsessed with this — llvm-lib includes symbols from both bitcode files and regular object files in the symbol table. like, both. at once. icon. 💀💖
• Creating thin archives. the /llvmlibthin option makes llvm-lib create a thin archive that contains only the symbol table and the header for the various members. these files are much smaller 🌱 but here's the tea — they are not compatible with link.exe. (lld can handle them though, so if you're on lld you're chilling 🧚)

fr fr bestie, remember that thin archive caveat — smaller files, but link.exe will NOT vibe with them. no cap. 🚨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

maintained by the LLVM Team ( https://llvm.org/ ) 💜

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

2003-2025, LLVM Project 🌈

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and that's the whole page bestie!! tysm for reading, go make some archives, slay 💅✨

signing off from the LLVM manual — page 20, dated 2025-09-03, copyright 2003-2025 LLVM Project 🦋💖